Via TV Guide: Anissa is presented as a strong, confident woman off the bat, but by the end of the premiere, she's also revealed to be openly gay. Rather than presenting Anissa with a coming out story in the first season, Black Lightning chose to reveal her sexual orientation and then move right along because this girl has a million things to do and stressing about her sexuality is not one of them.

Logann Pruneda, a student at Bullard High, says she was pelted with full juice boxes at school on Monday for being gay. It was her 16th birthday.

The Fresno Unified sophomore said that after a fire drill outside the school, she was hit with three boxes of apple juice from behind, leaving an abrasion and bruise on her neck. She was also hit in the back and ribs.

She heard a male call her “a faggot, a queer, a lesbo” during the attack, but did not see who did it, and did not recognize the voice.

“Master of None’s” Lena Waithe made history at the 69th Emmy Awards on Sunday, becoming the first black woman ever to win in the category of writing for a comedy series.

Waithe, who plays Denise in the Netflix series, co-wrote the “Thanksgiving” episode with “Master of None” co-creator Aziz Ansari. Her nomination also marked the first time a black woman was nominated for a comedy writing Emmy.

A couple of months after its release, 4:44 stands as perhaps JAY-Z‘s most nakedly honest album to date. The project finds Hov exploring dimensions of himself he hadn’t in previous projects, with one of them being the fact that his mother, Gloria Carter, is a lesbian. He makes the reveal on his touching song “Smile,” and in a recent conversation on the D’USSE Friday podcast, Hov’s mother details the moment she explained her sexual orientation. Apparently, it brought him to tears.

A new documentary offers an intimate glimpse into the life and tragic death of the late pop icon Whitney Houston, exploring questions about her love life and her struggles with addiction.

Filled with never-before-broadcast footage from the pop legend's 1999 world tour, the documentary, airing on Showtime this Friday, gives a viewpoint into the last days of the six-time Grammy Award winner, whose sudden death in 2012 at the age of 48 left her fans around the world reeling.